Seminar on Information Policy This seminar provides students an opportunity to do in-depth research into an information policy topic of their interest. Students will gain an understanding of current United States Government Policy in areas involved with information and information technology. Policies are forming and changing daily. In order to keep up with these changes the class includes guest lecturers who are studying or actually creating policies in the information area. The first part of the course consists of the studAuthor(s): No creator set

Science Bulletins: Full Gene Set Decoded for Three More People In June 2000, scientists triumphantly announced they had deciphered the full human genome—the 3.2 billion units of DNA that make up the blueprint for human life. This sequence was a composite of smaller segments of DNA from many individuals, arranged to make one complete strand. Sequencing this genome cost billions of dollars and took more than a decade using the laboratory tools and techniques developed at the time. Since then, faster and cheaper sequencing techniques have been developed. NowAuthor(s): No creator set

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Science Bulletins: Immune "Army" Can Fight HIV Some people who contract the HIV virus stay healthy for decades. Scientists working towards HIV vaccines seek out these rare patients, who are called elite controllers. A recent study by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, reveals one of the mechanisms behind their uncommon ability to ward off AIDS.Author(s): No creator set

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Science Bulletins: New Stem Cell Method Shows Promise The University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who turned ordinary skin cells into stem cells in 2007 have cleared a major safety concern of using those cells in research: their risk of cancer. Their previous process used a virus to insert several genes into the DNA of skin cells. The genetic code of these genes naturally reprograms cells to revert to their original stem cell state. There was just one problem—the new stem cells were cancer-prone.
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Windows Azure Web Sites is a simple and powerful hosting platform that allows developers to easily build and rapidly deploy web applications on Windows Azure using their favorite languages, frameworks, and tools. . In this session you will learn how to use this new technology to build, deploy, and run everything from classic ASP sites to modern ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications using both new and familiar tools including Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and WebMatrix.

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Getting It Right! (2) A series of 21 video films the aim of which is for Swedish students of EFL to get a hold of the basics of English grammar.Author(s): No creator set

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Children's Musical - Mexican Hat Dance on This is a short children's version of The Mexican Hat Dance. It features a song about the dance and how to do it with dancers dancing the traditional dance. This is a fun way for kids to learn more about Mexican culture. (01:33)Author(s): No creator set

Urban and Regional Planning -- Graduate Certificate Program at the College of Charleston The College of Charleston offers a graduate certificate program (4 classes) in urban and regional planning. The program is designed to give master's level students and working professionals an introduction to urban planning as an academic discipline and as a professional field. As a 12-credit introduction, students will acquire an overview of the work that urban planners do, and the information, tools, and skills that they use to complete this work. Course content includes legal issues, developmAuthor(s): No creator set